from the frst day of IWD

kabinoles

till now no MH ,and its getting realy annoying
from 5/13/2014 to today 8/10/2014 its a very long time not to get your full gear of black ice,and login in every day
soon it will be 3 months trying to get the full gear
and there are ppl that dont have both(bracers and mainhand)trying to get them for almost 3 months
there are players saying implement the token style you do HE's you get a amount of token,so many token you can get your bracers or weapon.good idea ,but do they listen .dont think so
got a rng on HE's that is a joke ,so low that I think seeing godzilla walk the earth will come first than getting your bracers or weapon(thats how it feel doing the HE's)
or they can get the % up on the rng (nope)
this is me getting realy frustrated

wanderer0000

welcome to the hamster wheel that is icewind dale. (not to talk about the rest of the game/and mmos around).

I pretty much gave up getting any HAMSTER from HE with my GF and he is dps. got lots of great sucess on big HE and never got nothing but HAMSTER.

hudman21

I am in the same boat. Weird thing is I got to 350 rep on my 14K GS GWF with a G. Plaguefire and over 100 HE's and all I have to show for it is junk I cant use. I have also tried on my TR and my DC but gave up IWD early on those two toons thinking my GWF would have the best chance.

Enter in my CW I just got to IWD and on his second day (last week) I got the gloves to drop. The rate is pathetic for sure and the most frustrating thing is nothing is really being done about it.

Wish things were different, I certainly don't expect the main hand to drop. I'm not holding my breath anyway.

mconosrep

All MMOs have a grind but it does make sense to have a token system in place in addition to the random drops. This way people know that no matter what they can eventually get to their goals even if Tymora keeps rebuffing their pleas.....

d4rthd00fus

The main problem here is that Cryptic has never really owned up to the failings of its RNG system. Items like this should not rely on a pure RNG. It should use a system that gradually increases your odds the more you try and fail, so folks like the OP don't become so fed up with the system that they just give up. After a LONG grind of doing HEs I did manage to get both pieces for 3 toons, but I can't say I had fun doing it.

crixus8000

Guys everyone thinks certain chars have a better chance, well that's not true, all characters have the same chance and it's just down to luck. I first got my bracers on my gf and remo was already on half hp when I arrived but I still got them and when I fought the black ice beholder once I got there first, didn't die, did lots of dmg and at the end all I got 25 black ice lol. Just keep trying, it's so annoying when items are dropped by chance but the only way to get it is by grinding and dying a little inside while you farm for what feels like years.

It would be easier if they just made the drops purchasable in the same shop where you buy the rest of the gear or as you said, tokens. There is many ways to make this less stressful for people and I hope it happens one day because nothing in any MMO should be drop chance like this, it makes it unfair and gives other players an advantage against others just because they got a little luck.

biibiisai

I found out today the the more times you empower the BI gear, the less combat time they have. I guess eventually they will go back to the T2 state and requires crafting again. This just makes spending all that time grinding for BI gear even less attractive.

bioshrike

d4rthd00fus wrote: »

The main problem here is that Cryptic has never really owned up to the failings of its RNG system. Items like this should not rely on a pure RNG. It should use a system that gradually increases your odds the more you try and fail, so folks like the OP don't become so fed up with the system that they just give up. After a LONG grind of doing HEs I did manage to get both pieces for 3 toons, but I can't say I had fun doing it.

I brought it up before, but it's worth repeating: The devs need to be transparent about a player's scoring, the different reward tiers, and really show how a player placed. They also need to work off of the seal system they added in the initial release, and simply allow players to buy items directly - maybe have anything above the minimum participation tier reward some Konig tokens, which can be used to buy the HE reward items.

isammax

biibiisai wrote: »

I found out today the the more times you empower the BI gear, the less combat time they have. I guess eventually they will go back to the T2 state and requires crafting again. This just makes spending all that time grinding for BI gear even less attractive.

That's not true, all fully empowered t3 parts have 6:56:40 remaining and it does not change no matter how many times you empower your gear. And you will never need to craft it again. And black ice consuming is reaaaaly low, 100k black ice will allow you to play in fully empowered t3 gear for 10-20 months I guess. Black ice gear is really good, for pvp and pve both.